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Mool Sagar Jaisalmer

Jaisalmer, Rajasthan, India

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Desert Fort in the Golden City, Jaiselmer

A travel blog entry by zolab

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We are in our third desert of the trip - the Thar Desert in India! We flew here yesterday on a turbo prop plane. And guess what! The pilot invited me to sit in the cockpit while we were about to land and see the different controls. The pilots had the plane on auto-pilot, so they could talk to me. It was very cool! We landed in Jaiselmer, which is …

Galloping on Camels

A travel blog entry by zolab

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Tonight, after lunch and a swim, we went on a camel ride in the Thar Desert, which is a scrub desert mostly except for some sand dunes. There were lots of camels (they are actually dromedaries, like in Morocco. The only camels in India are in the Himalayan area in the north.) and people. But I got to steer my own camel and I got to run! It was very …

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'THE' long awaited Camel Safari

A travel blog entry by carolerich

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... We rode for another couple of hours and then stopped for the night at an area with low sand dunes. The Thar desert is not really sandy. It is more of a scrub, dry landscape but there are areas where the winds and slope of the ground do collect enough sand to create dunes. We had our dunes all to ourselves which is a side benefit of going through Shahi Palace for this safari. Other safari’s go to dunes that are more ...

Day 50 - Living on the edge

A travel blog entry by mereldzi

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... conflict between the two major religions coming to an inevitable head, keen to keep themselves out of the firing range, they moved up the date for the transfer of power by a year, to August 1947.

It was clear by now that the Muslims, although a minority still accounting for 20% of the population, could not be ignored, and the only way to deliver the new country was by splitting it up into different states. The biggest problem of all with ...

Hot times in the Far West

A travel blog entry by richinindia

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... Soda waiting for me
and after lunch a 3 hour siesta before we head off for a camel ride and an evening of belly dancing and fine food under a tent in the desert. I will not be demonstrating my belly dancing skills, its way beneath a Maharajah.

Ok - thats all folks - let me get this off to you before I loose the connection. More about the camel ride when I get back to the Eastern cities tomorrow.

My blessings upon you

Rich
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